Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:45 AM PST on January 27, 2016
- Bike-share is coming to the East Bay (Daily Californian) (Oakland North)
- Del Norte county seeks input on Regional Transportation Plan (Triplicate)
- L.A.’s transit ridership is declining (LA Times)
- Caltrans, CHP launch website with transit, traffic info for Super Bowl (Times Herald)
- …and to avoid Super Bowl traffic, S.F. will shut down a popular tourist site (SFGate)
- BART cars are hella old (KQED)
- Sierra Club confused about employee shuttles (Systemic Failure)
- It’s time to redesign fire trucks to fit narrow city streets (City Lab)
- Ride-hailing apps:
- Beijing says they are causing traffic jams (Wall Street Journal)
- Sao Paulo tries an innovative regulatory approach (World Bank)
- Research: Use the bicycle as a tool to measure stuff, like temperature (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
- Washington Post to start a blog about transit (Washington Business Journal)
- Holding a party to help pay the rent, just like in the olden days (NPR)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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